Louisiana unemployment rate improves to 4.5 percent in February

March 28, 2014

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate improved to 4.5 percent in February, dropping for the seventh month in a row to the lowest level since July 2008. Not seasonally adjuste…

LWC moves employer wage reporting for unemployment online

March 26, 2014

BATON ROUGE, La. – All Louisiana employers now are required to file quarterly unemployment wage and tax reports electronically with the Louisiana Workforce Commission, a change that most of Louisiana’…

Meeting to Address Demand for Skilled Workers in Northeast Louisiana

March 21, 2014

MONROE, La. – An annual forum for employers to be held March 27 in Monroe will focus on the growing need for construction workers and for expanding the education and training pipeline to meet future c…

Record number of people employed in Louisiana in January

March 17, 2014

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana set a record in January with 1,990,531 people employed, which helped lower the unemployment rate to 4.9 percent, according to seasonally adjusted data from the federal Bureau o…

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